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"The Hope of My Family" by Sileye Sall (2010)

Film plays in an embedded Vimeo player. Click on the bottom-right of the player to watch in fullscreen. Make sure to enable HD!These images were filmed entirely by the students in Sinthiou Mbadane and Mbour. The narrations are their own words and voices.

Sileye Sall is the hope of his family: he is the only child his parents could afford to send to school.

These stories inspired the internationally-acclaimed feature film TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE. The movie comes with free educational materials correlated directly to the CCSS curricula standards for Gr 8-12, plus guided discussions for community groups and universities.